virulome

English

Etymology

From virulence +‎ -ome.

Noun

virulome (plural virulomes)

1. (microbiology) The set of genes that contribute to the virulence of a bacterium.
   • 2015 July 11, “Using Whole Genome Analysis to Examine Recombination across Diverse Sequence Types of Staphylococcus aureus”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     To further assess the virulome, blast score ratio (BSR) analysis was used as previously described to query known virulence genes (S2 Table) and their homologs across all S.

Derived terms

• metavirulome